New Delhi, Nov. 18 -- Although we have known since 2023 that India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act of 2023 (DPDP Act) would come into effect sooner or later, most businesses put off taking acti... Read More
New Delhi, Nov. 11 -- Last week, the ministry of electronics and information technology released the India AI Governance Guidelines, a proposed framework for governing artificial intelligence (AI). As... Read More
New Delhi, Nov. 4 -- In their book, If Anyone Builds It Everyone Dies, Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares argue that intelligence comprises two types of work: predicting the world and steering it. Inte... Read More
New Delhi, Oct. 28 -- Most AI developers prefer to use open-weight models to build their solutions because they can be fine-tuned to suit specific requirements. Take, for example, DeepSeek, the open-w... Read More
New Delhi, Oct. 22 -- Earlier this month, OpenAI rolled out Sora, a short-form video app that was its first foray into social media. While the last thing we need is yet another algorithmically-curated... Read More
New Delhi, Oct. 14 -- China's Quest to Engineer the Future, Dan Wang describes two distinct approaches to development. China, he argues, has risen to its current global stature on the back of an engin... Read More
New Delhi, Oct. 7 -- On 1 June 2025, a number of transport trucks parked within range of selected Russian airbases silently sprang into action. Roofs slid back to reveal hidden launchers and wave upon... Read More
New Delhi, Sept. 30 -- Every time we have been exposed to new technologies, we have worried about how they will change our lives. And yet history has shown that we usually overestimate the disruption ... Read More
New Delhi, Sept. 23 -- As regular readers of Ex Machina know, I have been waiting more than a decade for India to pass a comprehensive data protection law. Despite recent statements by the government ... Read More
New Delhi, Sept. 16 -- In 1948, Norbert Wiener published a work titled Cybernetics: Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine. In it, he pointed out that all biological organisms, mac... Read More